Last night, the news of JFK’s death punctured the Mad Men atmosphere, eliciting a variety of responses on the wavelength of grief. Jezebel has an excellent gallery of the most touching clips from the episode, along with commentary about the…
The other night I was explaining to T. (in his quest to become pop-culture-literate) the story of Selena, including her awful murder by Yolanda Saldivar, her friend and president of her fan club. I especially appreciated how the biopic Selena,…
If nothing, else this is quite the comprehensive list. I’ve also included my votes, where applicable. (Reading this makes me want to put all of the movies I haven’t yet seen on my Netflix immediately.)
Best Horror Movie
Dead Snow…
In Couples Retreat, husbands Dave (Vince Vaughn) and Jason (Jason Bateman) have some relatively young wives in Ronnie (Malin Akerman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell), respectively. However, the age gap really isn’t that noticeable, due to both actresses deftly taking on…
The image that stays with me most strongly from the Gamer trailer is of Michael C. Hall’s mastermind in what looks like a dance-scene freeze-frame. Whether that moment is a real part of the movie or a hallucination, it remains…
The trend in several current TV programs seems to be to plan out your show according to a specific number of seasons, and cap it there — not to draw it out with guest stars, rearranged hookups, or incomprehensible cliffhangers.…
Tropes & Props is a weekly column that details the various objects (collective word “props”) utilized in on-screen storytelling, tracking their significance from the writer’s mind to the character’s soul.
Hello, faithful T+P readers! Sorry for the delay in this…
Last year’s trend was to adapt comicbooks to the big screen; in 2009, it’s reversed: utilizing the visual medium to promote upcoming films, Variety reports.
Studios are now making deals with publishers like Dark Horse to create prequel comicbooks that…
I was hoping I’d have to chance to put up some sort of screen-themed Comic-Con post, but since I lack the cash/time to go, I figured that I’d fail at informing everyone in a timely manner. Enter two kind souls…
Watchmen clocked in at close to three hours, so I didn’t feel as if I missed any scenes, but as part of the DVD release, there’s this deleted scene showing Hollis Mason’s death.
The way it was described before its…
